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Author Krúdy, Gyula.

Title Krúdy's chronicles : turn-of-the-century Hungary in Gyula Krúdy's journalism / selected, edited, and translated by John Bátki ; with an introductory essay by John Lukacs
Published New York : Central European University Press, ©2000

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 288 pages, 2 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book
Summary "Gyula Krudy is one of the towering figures of twentieth century Hungarian literature. In addition to a stunning array of fiction - over eighty novels and stories - Krudy's non-fiction output is considerable, about eighteen hundred items of journalistic writing. These writings constitute a colourful and closely observed 'chronicle' of Hungary in the first decades of the twentieth century."
"Written during the 1910's, 20's and 30's, these articles offer a wistful and nostalgic image of the waning years of the Austro-Hungarian empire, with portraits of the Habsburgs, culminating in first-hand reports in 1916, from Vienna on the funeral of Emperor Francis Joseph I, and from Budapest on the coronation of Charles IV, the last king of Hungary. Krudy's reports follow the bloodless democratic revolution of 1918, the Karolyi government and the short-lived Soviet Republic, and present cameos of the leading political figures of the day such as Ferenc Kossuth, Mihaly Karolyi and Bela Kun."--Jacket
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (page 283) and index
Notes English
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Subject Manners and customs
SUBJECT Hungary -- Social life and customs -- 20th century
Subject Hungary
Form Electronic book
Author Bátki, John
LC no. 00047483
ISBN 9639116785
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9639116793
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